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Well this has worked great for Boeing, a once great American engineering company.

On the other hand India has an excellent education system and highly skilled engineers, and any capital flow away from the five big cities in the world that sinks the vast majority of it can only be a good thing.

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> India has an excellent education system and highly skilled engineers

This year old article disagrees.

https://www.businesstoday.in/current/corporate/indian-engine...

That article is misleading. India has a huge amount of people going into Engineering, and calculating what % of engineers (not CS engineers, or even CS+ electrical engineers) can code, is a useless metric. Not to mention, a textile engineer not being able to code doesn't have anything to do with engineering quality. And the survey has many useless stats like that.

> India has an excellent education system

Explain in which way is it excellent?

Which part do you think Indian education system does well relatively?

A significant portion of the current SV crowd on H1b, is a product of the indian education system.

> A significant portion of the current SV crowd on H1b, is a product of the indian education system.

Could you be more elaborate?

I can see that statement meaning wildly different things on HN and it doesn't answer my question.

OK, I'll bite. The top academic institutions in the exact sciences and engineering (old IITs, IISc) are excellent by any standard, and the students are top notch, due to the large pool from which they are selected and the brutally tough selection process. Example: a significant number of the top CS researchers in the world are graduates from these institutes.

> The top academic institutions in the exact sciences and engineering (old IITs, IISc) are excellent by any standard, and the students are top notch, due to the large pool from which they are selected and the brutally tough selection process.

It's a result of huge population and most institutions being trash so students are concentrated in one place. That is in no way a feature of the education system itself.

The quality of your peers is an important feature of any educational system (if not the most important) -- by that measure alone the top institutes in India are excellent. The top researchers/professors at those institutes are also a product of the same institutes, and the same selection process, so the top institutes are generally of a high standard (in terms of workload, choice of topics, teaching quality, etc.). Although, here, admittedly the draw of industry and universities abroad has a large effect and the teachers are not the top 0.01% of their age group in the same way as student are.

I don't think that is relevant to the education system still. That is a very small share of Indian student population. 15k/37.4 million.

What do you think about reservation in those institutions?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservation_policy_in_Indian_I...

2. https://theprint.in/india/education/iits-take-womens-quota-t...

3. For 10% poor all catch reservation which will be implemented soon - https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/10-reservation-for...

I'm not indian, so I only see the surface of all the socio-economic issues, some of which go way back -- as far as I know, the reservation issue is highly charged and sensitive (similarly to gender/race issues in the US), and I have no strong opinion on them.

As far as I see, all energy spent railing against the reservation system is better spent improving yourself.

I only mentioned it because you said that the consistent brutal selection process is a feature.

> As far as I see, all energy spent railing against the reservation system is better spent improving yourself.

You have approximately 60% seats reserved, the remaining 40% seats are left for everyone else to compete on equal grounds.

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